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1929-vintage Springfield Armory M1903 NRA Sporter. For $45 + NRA membership card the Armory would build you one and mail it to you. Less than 5000 made total, 1922-ish to early 1930's. Production stopped when commercial gunmakers bitched about the gov't competing with them for sales of hunting rifles. This one is documented and in original configuration. Very accurate, well balanced, a joy to carry all day - it's become my go-to deer rifle. .30-06, naturally. I got it from the grandson of the original owner who lived in Alaska and toted it on his regular trips to Kodiak Island. The bears it has accounted for give it some good ju-ju IMO! Last 60-70 years before I got it, it lived in a closet.

I've shot that .450 Howell.

My trusty pair of old model 70s:

This one has put a bunch of meat in the freezer since 1969! .3o/o6

Take your pick - all mine are no-frills: Not gonna hunt them up and pic em, or list them.

The most no-frills is likely the Rem770 POS. Swapped out the no-name scope that came with the $400 Walmart special for a 6X40? Tasco (proven scope). MOA, factory ammo, no mods except I think I tuned the trigger a bit to about 2.5 lbs. Crisp and light anyway. Worked to well over 300 yards, 2 years ago. Corelokts too!

1929-vintage Springfield Armory M1903 NRA Sporter. For $45 + NRA membership card the Armory would build you one and mail it to you. Less than 5000 made total, 1922-ish to early 1930's. Production stopped when commercial gunmakers bitched about the gov't competing with them for sales of hunting rifles. This one is documented and in original configuration. Very accurate, well balanced, a joy to carry all day - it's become my go-to deer rifle. .30-06, naturally. I got it from the grandson of the original owner who lived in Alaska and toted it on his regular trips to Kodiak Island. The bears it has accounted for give it some good ju-ju IMO! Last 60-70 years before I got it, it lived in a closet.

In the spirit of greydog’s lament here is my favourite hunting rifle. Built by him. I didn’t post it earlier on this thread as I consider it to be frilled. But a meat getter it certainly is.

In the spirit of greydog’s lament here is my favourite hunting rifle. Built by him. I didn’t post it earlier on this thread as I consider it to be frilled. But a meat getter it certainly is.

Here's my no-frills rifle, the Remington 722 .257 Roberts that my grandmother used to kill everything from pronghorns to elk in central Montana. It was given to her by her second husband in 1953 (my grandfather died during the Great Depression), a hardware store owner in Denton, Montana. At least six family members have used it to take big game.

It's still very accurate, and I killed this pronghorn doe in 2016 at 350 yards on pretty breezy day with a 100-grain Barnes TTSX handload.

Also used it some when guiding during the late 1980s, in one instance killing a wounded pronghorn buck at around 550. Of course, that was before laser rangefinders, but by using the plex reticle as a rough RF, managed to get it done.

Might have to take it hunting again this fall....

Kinda tough to make out in this pic but it started life as an Interarms Mark X in .30-06 some stock modifications and a barrel band later it is the "go to" gun when I think I'm gonna shoot something bigger than a deer.
This was culling in Africa...I have a tad over $200 invested in this rifle

Now THAT'S what I call no frills. Some of the ones here are pretty frilly...